[SystemSafety] Tim Harford on Automation and Safety

[Peter Bernard Ladkin]

Tim Harford, moderately well known as the "Underground Economist", apparently has a new book out on
how automation is affecting our lives in safety-critical applications. Some of it is excerpted here:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/11/crash-how-computers-are-setting-us-up-disaster

It talks about AF447, driverless cars, and "shared space" traffic arrangements now attracting
attention in Northern Europe (Drachten in the Netherlands; Bohmte in Germany not too far from
Bielefeld. Here is the German automobile club take on it (in German):
https://www.adac.de/_mmm/pdf/fi_shared_space_1109_238776.pdf We sure need it where I live.

PBL

Prof. Peter Bernard Ladkin, Bielefeld, Germany
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